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Another Buffalo Accident In Africa

(posted July 20, 2004)

Yesterday, we told you about Canadian outfitter Bob Fontana being killed by a buffalo. Well, there has been another buffalo mishap. This one is in Zimbabwe, and it involves PH Howard Hunter of HHK Safaris.

Seems Hunter and an unnamed client were following up on a wounded buffalo on the Lemco Concession this past Sunday when the animal burst out of thick brush in front of them. Hunter fired and hit the buffalo, we are told, but the animal was so close Hunter had to grab it by the horns with both hands in an attempt to keep it from goring him. As he wrestled with the animal, a bullet fired either by an HHK tracker or the client penetrated the buffalo and struck Hunter in the arm.

We have all this directly from Graham Hingston of HHK, who said Hunter has already had surgery on his arm and been medi-vac-ed to Johannnesburg. His chances of a full recovery are "excellent," Hingston told us today. As for the buffalo, it fell dead on the scene after the shot that injured Hunter's arm.

Hingston said the mishap occurred on the last day of the client's safari. The client has already left the area at this writing and is on his way back to the States, Hingston told The Hunting Report. Hingston declined to give us the client's name. More details as they become available. - Don Causey, Editor/Publisher.

(Postscript: We are indebted to Kathi Klimes of World Travel Mart for early word of this accident. Klimes can be reached at 708-425-3552.)

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